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  • The Classical Tradition

    Art, Literature, Thought

    by Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, Rosemary Barrow ...
    The classical tradition—the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome—is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

    by Michael Silk ...
    Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture

    by Michael Silk, Rosemary Barrow ...
    Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

    Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

    by Michael Silk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Resilient Culture

    How Collective Resilience Leads to Business Success

    by Liane Stephan, Silke Rupprecht, Chris Tamdjidi, Michael Mackay Richards ...
    WINNER: Axiom Business Book Award 2025 - Bronze Medal, Digital MediaFINALIST**:** 2025 International Book Awards - Motivational CategoryThe ideal business is productive, collaborative and innovative. But how can you bring these qualities into your organization? The solution is to build a resilient culture.This is a groundbreaking guide to lasting success through practical a... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Why We Cooperate

    by Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, Elizabeth S. Spelke ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alexandria, Real and Imagined

    by Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Edited by Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich, Anthony Bush ...
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds

    Different Understandings of Design

    Edited by Silke Konsorski-Lang, Michael Hampe ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same term is not even guaranteed to carry the same meaning as soon as one crosses over to other ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies

    Edited by Holly Thorpe, Michael Silk, David Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sports Coaching Research

    Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

    by Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Global Impact of Unconventional Energy Resources

    by Ken Morgan, Anas Alhajji, Stefan Andreasson, Larry Brogdon, Tina Hunter, Bijan Khajehpour, Tatiana Mitrova, Isidro Morales, Thomas B. Murphy, Silke Popp0, Michael Slattery1, David Yoxtheimer2, Manochehr Dorraj3 ...
    The chapters in this volume represent the latest thinking on the development and exploration of unconventional energy resources in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa and shed light on its potential and future prospects in these respective regions. The diversity of thinking about the “shale revolution” is also evident in our case ... Read more

    $40.99 USD